from Hacker News

Searching the Internet Archive, I found lots of articles by sci-fi author Ted Chiang in back issues of an old computer magazine from the late eighties from when he was studying computer science at Brown University. The magazine was called ProFiles: The Magazine for Kaypro Users.

October 1985 - Assorted Sorts:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_3_Number_3_1985-10_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/32

April 1986 - Pop-Up Desktop Utilities:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_3_Number_9_1986-04_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n35

July 1986 - Multi-Format Programs:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_4_Number_1_1986-07_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n35

April 1987 - Getting to CP/M's Graphics:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_4_Number_9_1987-04_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n57

September 1987 - Data Compression Programs:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_2_1987-09_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n29

December 1987 - Data Encryption:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_5_1987-12_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n72

March 1988 - Graphics Programming in GWBASIC:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_8_1988-03_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n27

April 1988 - QuickBASIC and Turbo BASIC:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_9_1988-04_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n30

May 1988 - File Recovery Utilities:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_10_1988-05_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n44

June 1988 - Hypertext: Linking Related Documents:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_11_1988-06_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/18